In the new "merchant media" wave, ecommerce operators are discovering they can turn their store sites into vehicles that capture audience data for ad targeting. But Amar Goel thinks they can go further. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Goel, Founder & Chairman, PubMatic, says visitors to ecommerce sites can be snared from publisher sites. Publisher to platform "If I go to gap.com and I [...]

GroupM launched an effort to create new standards for viewability and measurement of advertising that appears on connected television (CTV). The ad-buying giant, a unit of WPP, will have exclusive access to a new software tool that media-measurement firm iSpot.tv is developing to verify that commercials appear on streaming video. The test product, iSpot CTV Verification is built on iSpot's [...]

Consumers have more ways to watch video content as connected devices like smart TVs and mobile phones give them greater control over the viewing experience. This significant shift in their media consumption habits has challenged advertisers to improve their ability to manage cross-platform campaigns as traditional linear television and streaming video converge on people’s electronic screens. “In theory, the promise of [...]

Fresh from a host of announcements, sell-side ad platform provider Magnite says it has been picked by DIRECTV for programmatic ad sales enablement. The company will extend programmatic automation to DIRECTV's traditional TV inventory. That will start with on-demand, working work enabling linear for programmatic by next year as a goal. https://twitter.com/magnite/status/1536702725315915776?s=21 Up the funnel In this video interview with Beet.TV in April, new DIRECTV [...]

A couple of years ago, it was a game played by Amazon and a couple of the very biggest retailers. Now retail media networks have become so big they are also getting complicated. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Greg Stevens, GM at GIG Retail, a specialist focused on merchant media, explains what needs to happen. Merchant media are expanding Stevens' GIG Retail offers [...]

Having built an influential network in the past 15 years through YouTube, social media and a growing e-mail database of industry leaders, Beet.TV will launch a service to establish enduring one-to-one relationships through intelligent matching and streamlined introductions. The offering, called BeetConnect, is free. It will be available to our email subscribers, our followers on social media and to qualified individuals [...]

A growing variety of ecommerce sites are selling digital advertising, giving brands a chance to reach consumers as they research what they want to buy – and follow through with a purchase. “This really started in the retail media side of things … Amazon and other big players. They had tons of digital consumers coming to their site,” Conor McKenna, director [...]

EMarketer says 2022 will be “the year of retail media networks“, with US spending growing another $10bn to $41.37bn, representing 17.2% of total US digital ad spending. To get there, however, many brands are going to have to learn how to operate in the new environment. That is according to Abi Harmon, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Ascential. Whole new game Harmon was EVP and [...]

Connected television will provide the most significant video platform for advertisers with the growth of programmatic media buying. These automated transactions will depend on a variety of supporting technologies to help brands identify the households they want to reach while also respecting consumer privacy. For marketers to commit more of their media budgets to CTV, they’ll also demand metrics that [...]

A growing number of businesses are finding ways to monetize the visits to their websites by selling advertising. These companies include everything from major retail chains with millions of customers to smaller enterprises that serve niche markets. “We are continuously getting calls from retailers that are looking to advance their retail media offering,” Sherry Smith, executive managing director of global retail [...]

The wind-down of traditional digital ad identifiers like cookies has caused the ad targeting world to splinter. Mark Connon wants to put it back together. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the GM of ad-tech firm Tapad says the new wave of ad identifiers needs a translation layer. Experian taps Tapad Experian in November 2020 acquired Tapad, a provider of digital identity resolution for marketers. The company [...]

Advertising is becoming more transactional as a variety of technologies emerge to support a direct response from consumers as they watch television, use a social media app or scan a code with a smartphone camera. These media touchpoints are all opportunities for commerce. “Shoppable media is hot … that's where a lot of the commerce growth is going to come from [...]

Radio throughout its history has provided a way for brands to reach a mass audience efficiently in their awareness campaigns. With the growth of streaming audio and on-demand programming like podcasts, marketers can engage listeners with ads that drive transactions. In that way, audio formats now reach all parts of the consumer purchase funnel. “Ad-supported audio is a booming business,” Tim [...]

Online marketplaces like Amazon and retailers like Walmart are selling advertising space on their websites, parlaying their mass-market scope and deep troves of consumer data into targeted reach at scale. However, they’re not the only companies that can sell advertising. Travel sites, auto parts retailers, home-delivery services and smaller retailers also have an opportunity to participate in media sales. “Enabling commerce everywhere [...]

Millions of people are hooking up their TVs directly to the internet, giving advertisers a way to reach target audiences that’s similar to digital pinpointing. This delivery mechanism is significant in making the video ad marketplace more transparent to marketers and agencies. “Knowing what programs our audiences are really tuning into to allow us to make better, smarter buying decisions for [...]

After a rough couple of years for the economy, a phase which may yet be worsening on the markets, one shining light for marketers may be the growing proximity of advertising to direct commerce opportunities. Live and social commerce is starting to show tremendous growth, whilst retail media networks are giving brands and retailers alike new opportunities. In this video interview with [...]

It has become a cliché that advertising is about getting "the right ad to the right person at the right time". But, if any technology can achieve that, it is dynamic creative optimization (DCO), the process of constructing a multitude of different ad creatives from raw component parts for distinct individuals. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Oz Etzioni, CEO & Co-Founder, Clinch, [...]

The dramatic shifts in people’s media consumption habits from linear television to streaming have led advertisers to demand more accurate viewership metrics. Comcast’s NBCUniversal has worked to provide marketers with that information, most recently in a “test-and-learn” project that included 66 advertisers. “For the first time, we're able to actually get an understanding of true cross-platform impression reach and frequency delivery, [...]

More ecommerce sites are testing the value of their visitors to brands that are seeking to reach online consumers, especially at the lower parts of the purchase funnel. The commerce media market is growing and diversifying beyond retail media networks started by mass merchants like Amazon, Walmart and Target. “Across the board there's a massive amount of opportunity in this transformation [...]

If you want to go across platforms, you need to go full-stack. That is the message from one seasoned ad-tech exec, as he joins a new company to grant ad buyers' multi-platform wish. After stints with Simulmedia, Innovid and, most recently, QTT, John Piccone just joined ad-tech software supplier Adform as regional president, Americas. Platform breadth Adform's product offering now spans two customer segments. Advertisers [...]